Yes, you are right, we feel disappointed and even feel that all the essence of forum life becomes terrible if it is filled with chatbots that destroy the authenticity of individual thoughts. People who are lazy to think and in the end are easily fooled by the assumptions that appear on the chatbot screen. Instead of being a controller, just being controlled. Isn't this ridiculous?
For any signature spammer or for anyone who just wants to look
"very intelligent" such things are a real blessing, especially for those who have alt farms with which they abuse sig campaigns. Let's say that this is perhaps the lesser evil, because as you say, it would be really tragic if what some call
"advance in technology" actually turns out to be something that will further distance people from each other.
For those who have been around for a long time and we know them, there is no doubt that they are real people - but every beginner is a potential AI. I remember that we had a discussion on this topic back in 2018 when the younger brother of GPT-4 was relevant, but I could not have imagined that today we will be in a situation where we are asking questions about what was made/written by a human, and what was created by artificial intelligence.